Pluck by Eva Dobell shows war through a different and interesting view. This poem shows brutality, hopelessness, despair and gore. The first line of the poem sets the tone for the whole poem ‘Crippled for life at seventeen,’ it shows the innocence of a seventeen year old boy at war, the despair and hopelessness, it is easily established through this line that the poem is going to make your heart ache. Dobell has used imagery to show what war has done to this boy, and thousands more. Her personal experiences of war and being a woman at war contributed to her view on war. Lines throughout the whole poem like ‘With both legs smashed it might have been better in that grim trench to die than drag maimed years out helplessly’ this phrase comes from
